Fiona Moore 🇨🇦
@drfionamoore.bsky.social
BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022).
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I really hope I can get tickets for this. 1930s television! I can watch what my grandparents watched!
Magic Rays season: the documentaries
More on the screenings at BFI Southbank in January; go here for my first notes on the documentaries that we will screen on the 8th and 15th of the month.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
More on the screenings at BFI Southbank in January; go here for my first notes on the documentaries that we will screen on the 8th and 15th of the month.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
Magic Rays season: the documentaries - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: As noted earlier in the week, I have curated a screening season at BFI Southbank in January to tie in with the publication by Bloomsbury and the BFI of Magic Rays of Light: The Earl...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really hope I can get tickets for this. 1930s television! I can watch what my grandparents watched!
This artist designs intricate suits of armor. The intended wearer? A humble mouse
Jeff de Boer has made an entire career out of crafting tiny plate armor. He's compelled by the idea of the underdog finding an edge; something so small being so well-protected.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I swear eligibility post season comes round earlier every year... anyway, graphic and links:
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November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I swear eligibility post season comes round earlier every year... anyway, graphic and links:
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Richmond be Richmond, but I know people who bought London flats in the 1960s which are now worth millions, while the people themselves are on state pensions. Diamond shoes, I know, but it seems a bit sad that they'll have to sell their flats to billionaires and leave their neighbourhoods.
It's an extra £200 a month.
For people who's houses are worth over £2m.
These people probably spend more than that on a bottle of wine when they go out for dinner.
For people who's houses are worth over £2m.
These people probably spend more than that on a bottle of wine when they go out for dinner.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Richmond be Richmond, but I know people who bought London flats in the 1960s which are now worth millions, while the people themselves are on state pensions. Diamond shoes, I know, but it seems a bit sad that they'll have to sell their flats to billionaires and leave their neighbourhoods.
"all change is not growth, and all movement is not forward."
In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"all change is not growth, and all movement is not forward."
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
books2read.com/u/mVLQgp
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
books2read.com/u/mVLQgp
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
books2read.com/u/mVLQgp
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
books2read.com/u/mVLQgp
"The Apologists" by @tadethompson.bsky.social is going on all my recommendation lists this year. clarkesworldmagazine.com/thompson_11_...
The Apologists by Tade Thompson
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"The Apologists" by @tadethompson.bsky.social is going on all my recommendation lists this year. clarkesworldmagazine.com/thompson_11_...
The problem with “AI” isn’t the tech, it’s the predatory capitalism, part 94.
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The problem with “AI” isn’t the tech, it’s the predatory capitalism, part 94.
In 2001 LSE economist Leslie Sklair published a book called The Transnational Capitalist Class, which is worth revisiting in light of all of this.
"If the power elite remains poorly understood, it may be because it is not just a financial elite or an educated elite, a noblesse-oblige elite, a political elite or a narrative-making elite. It straddles all of these, lucratively, persuaded of its own good intentions."
Free link. archive.ph/TbYs7
Free link. archive.ph/TbYs7
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In 2001 LSE economist Leslie Sklair published a book called The Transnational Capitalist Class, which is worth revisiting in light of all of this.
Reposted by Fiona Moore 🇨🇦
Do you know how much of the cover price goes to a trad published writer? About 10-15%.
The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).
How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).
How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Do you know how much of the cover price goes to a trad published writer? About 10-15%.
The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).
How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).
How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
Time to share my favourite Christmas advert again. I am old so have no idea who the influencers are, but it's fun, joyful, campy and with a little zing about unpaid labour at holiday time.
youtu.be/ob0oLMhGV9I?...
youtu.be/ob0oLMhGV9I?...
Boots 2024 Christmas advert with Adjoa Andoh
YouTube video by The Mirror
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Time to share my favourite Christmas advert again. I am old so have no idea who the influencers are, but it's fun, joyful, campy and with a little zing about unpaid labour at holiday time.
youtu.be/ob0oLMhGV9I?...
youtu.be/ob0oLMhGV9I?...
Reposted by Fiona Moore 🇨🇦
I just learned about the imminent closure of The Bookshop in Sydney. It's got a significant place in the history of LGBTQIA people in that city where I grew up.
I wrote about the importance of books and bookshops in my life, and how things have changed.
💙📚
ko-fi.com/post/On-Book...
I wrote about the importance of books and bookshops in my life, and how things have changed.
💙📚
ko-fi.com/post/On-Book...
On Books and Shops that Sell Them
SJ Groenewegen published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I just learned about the imminent closure of The Bookshop in Sydney. It's got a significant place in the history of LGBTQIA people in that city where I grew up.
I wrote about the importance of books and bookshops in my life, and how things have changed.
💙📚
ko-fi.com/post/On-Book...
I wrote about the importance of books and bookshops in my life, and how things have changed.
💙📚
ko-fi.com/post/On-Book...
This is how we do festive at my place.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is how we do festive at my place.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
(If you haven't seen historical K-drama Mister Sunshine, do not be fooled by their cute appearance. They are both capable of assassinating Japanese officers from 500 yards)
(If you haven't seen historical K-drama Mister Sunshine, do not be fooled by their cute appearance. They are both capable of assassinating Japanese officers from 500 yards)
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
(If you haven't seen historical K-drama Mister Sunshine, do not be fooled by their cute appearance. They are both capable of assassinating Japanese officers from 500 yards)
(If you haven't seen historical K-drama Mister Sunshine, do not be fooled by their cute appearance. They are both capable of assassinating Japanese officers from 500 yards)
Every year at Christmas I re-watch the original Star Wars Trilogy plus Rogue One, plus whatever of the rest of it I feel like watching and isn't terrible.
This year, wondering if I should give a TV series a rewatch. Bad Batch? Clone Wars? Mandalorian?
This year, wondering if I should give a TV series a rewatch. Bad Batch? Clone Wars? Mandalorian?
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Every year at Christmas I re-watch the original Star Wars Trilogy plus Rogue One, plus whatever of the rest of it I feel like watching and isn't terrible.
This year, wondering if I should give a TV series a rewatch. Bad Batch? Clone Wars? Mandalorian?
This year, wondering if I should give a TV series a rewatch. Bad Batch? Clone Wars? Mandalorian?
Eight more days till Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Eight more days till Charlie Brown
Silver Shamrock
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Eight more days till Charlie Brown
Silver Shamrock
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Charlie Brown.
We'll always have Paris, Charlie Brown.
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Eight more days till Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Eight more days till Charlie Brown
Silver Shamrock
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Eight more days till Charlie Brown
Silver Shamrock
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Charlie Brown.
We'll always have Paris, Charlie Brown.
Where we’re going we won’t need eyes to see, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Charlie Brown.
We'll always have Paris, Charlie Brown.
Where we’re going we won’t need eyes to see, Charlie Brown
I find your lack of faith disturbing, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We'll always have Paris, Charlie Brown.
This probably describes a few of my friends.
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This probably describes a few of my friends.
Today is my birthday; Doctor Who's birthday; and also the Gotcha Day of this fine fellow here.
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today is my birthday; Doctor Who's birthday; and also the Gotcha Day of this fine fellow here.
One of my favourite talks at Worldcon 2017 was by a Finnish shaman who told us that you should not say the name of the bear, because it would summon it, you should instead use a euphemism like "the honey paw" or "the bone dick."
No, seriously, "the bone dick."
No, seriously, "the bone dick."
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
One of my favourite talks at Worldcon 2017 was by a Finnish shaman who told us that you should not say the name of the bear, because it would summon it, you should instead use a euphemism like "the honey paw" or "the bone dick."
No, seriously, "the bone dick."
No, seriously, "the bone dick."
Happy Tolkien Knew How 21-Year-Olds Party Day!
Also, part of me does wonder if there were fireworks. Really good fireworks.
Also, part of me does wonder if there were fireworks. Really good fireworks.
In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Happy Tolkien Knew How 21-Year-Olds Party Day!
Also, part of me does wonder if there were fireworks. Really good fireworks.
Also, part of me does wonder if there were fireworks. Really good fireworks.
Whooo wants a horror workshop! @alexdavis1981.bsky.social always does great events.
My workshop is 12pm Saturday 7 December, where we'll experiment with Christmas spookiness in stories of community.
Title: "Can't Survive With Em, Can't Survive Without Em."
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkness-i...
My workshop is 12pm Saturday 7 December, where we'll experiment with Christmas spookiness in stories of community.
Title: "Can't Survive With Em, Can't Survive Without Em."
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkness-i...
Darkness in the Fields - Midwinter 2
Join us for two days of online folk horror events, with workshops and interview from an exciting variety of writers in the genre.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The government will do what they're determined to do, but maybe if enough of them scream at them they'll get the message on this.
UK government consultation alert. Details are in the linked website.
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The government will do what they're determined to do, but maybe if enough of them scream at them they'll get the message on this.